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Orchidea De Santis
Bari, Puglia, Italia
Orchidea De Santis, pseudonym of Orchidea De Sanctis (Bari, December 20, 1948), is an Italian actress. Of Salento origins but born in Bari due to her father's work as an officer…
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Orchidea De Santis, pseudonym of Orchidea De Sanctis (Bari, December 20, 1948), is an Italian actress. Of Salento origins but born in Bari due to her father's work as an officer in the Navy, she moved with her family, who ran a hotel in the capital of Puglia, first to Gallipoli and then to Rome, following her sister who was sixteen years older. At the beginning she was also a singer and, later, a theater actress. She has ranged from cinema to radio, from theater to music, until arriving on television. From 2006 to 2013 she managed a blog. She collaborates with various animal rights and environmental associations. Active especially in the Seventies, she was an interpreter of the Italian sexy comedy, initially mainly in costume and with a Boccaccian setting. Her presence in Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno is curious, a film in which, for script needs, she was made up to appear ugly. In 1979, her film career came to an abrupt end following a serious injury on the set of Carlo Vanzina's film Arrivano i gatti when, due to an accidental fall into a trap door, she broke her elbow (which was later completely surgically reconstructed), risking permanent damage to her entire arm.
Filmography
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1999
Eurotika!
TV show Self
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1992
Close Friends
Movie Elena
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1980
Arrivano i gatti
Movie attrice del film erotico
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1979
Three Under the Sheets
Movie Rosita, la domestica (segment "Sabatto mattina")
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1978
Ridendo e scherzando
Movie Dalia Casali
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1978
Tanto va la gatta al lardo...
Movie sorella di Vilma e Vera
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1977
Ride bene... chi ride ultimo
Movie Teresa, moglie di Toni
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1977
L'appuntamento
Movie moglie del collega
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1977
Il signor Ministro li pretese tutti e subito
Movie Doris
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1977
Rene the Cane
Movie Kim
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1976
Under the Sheets
Movie Nurse Italia
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1976
San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
Movie Bastiana
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1976
Una bella governante di colore
Movie Santina
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1975
The Sweet Aunts
Movie Farmer
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1975
The Family Vice
Movie Marisa
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1975
Hurry, the Schoolgirls Are Coming!
Movie Nadia
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1975
La sensualità è un attimo di vita
Movie Wife of Franco
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1975
L'ingenua
Movie Susy
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1974
Love Angels
Movie Benedetta
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1974
To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
Movie Jolanda, la Sposa
- 1974
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1974
The Killer Wore Gloves
Movie Shirley
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1974
La nipote
Movie Doris - The Maid
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1974
Charlys Nichten
Movie Dominique
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1974
To Love Ophelia
Movie Trieste - blonde prostitute
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1973
Provaci anche tu Lionel
Movie Anna Tredicesimo
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1973
Tales of Erotica
Movie Lisa Martini (segment "The Trick")
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1973
The Sensual Man
Movie una prostituta
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1973
The Sexbury Tales
Movie Amanda
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1973
Lady Dynamite
Movie
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1972
Love and Death in the Garden of the Gods
Movie Viola
- 1972
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1972
Love, Passion and Pleasure
Movie Dinda
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1972
Hot Nights of the Decameron
Movie Peronella
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1972
Seven Murders for Scotland Yard
Movie Sandy Christian
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1972
Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?
Movie The Prostitute
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1972
Prey of Vultures
Movie Janet Sullivan
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1972
Devil in the Brain
Movie Caterina
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1972
The Forbidden Decameron
Movie Tessa
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1972
Hector the Mighty
Movie Briseide
